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Yiannis Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, currently Chair of Future Worlds Center, Founding Member of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, Member of the Board of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, Member of the Board of a number of high-tech companies, and national representative in several COST Actions, Insafe, Inhope, EU Kids online, ECSO, Cybercrime Centre of Excellence, ECTEG – Europol, etc. He is one of the authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto; he promotes the application of broadband technologies and structured democratic dialogue as tools to bridge the digital; economic educational and inter-personal divides on our planet. He is developing systems to scale up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of participants in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating institutional and societal change. Laouris has medical degree and a PhD in Neurophysiology from Germany, and an MS in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the US. His work is published in several books, over 100 scientific papers and honored with more than 10 distinguished awards.